- Mustafa Suleyman, a founding father of Google’s DeepMind AI lab, has labored for Microsoft for a couple of month.
- He stated his quick tenure is “one of the crucial thrilling and fulfilling occasions I’ve ever skilled.”
- Microsoft, Suleyman stated, is “a really AI-first enterprise.”
Mustafa Suleyman, who co-founded Google’s DeepMind AI lab and was the chief government of the startup Inflection AI earlier than Microsoft lured him away in March, is happy about his new gig.
“I have been at Microsoft for simply over a month. It has been an exhilarating journey attending to know an enormous variety of folks, organizations and initiatives, doubtless one of the crucial thrilling and fulfilling occasions I’ve ever skilled,” he wrote Monday in a collection of posts on X, previously Twitter.
2/5 The corporate is outlined by a genuinely supportive and powerful tradition from high to backside. It is uncommon to see this at any scale of enterprise. However it’s made becoming a member of and getting used to every part tremendous straightforward. Thanks to everybody for being so welcoming (and affected person) as we have been…
— Mustafa Suleyman (@mustafasuleyman) Might 6, 2024
He stated the corporate has a “genuinely supportive and powerful tradition from high to backside,” which is uncommon in any dimension enterprise, however it appears the larger draw for him is that “AI is every part” at Microsoft.
“Microsoft is a really AI-first enterprise driving the largest technological transformation of our time,” Suleyman wrote, praising the management of Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, in addition to Chief Know-how Officer Kevin Scott. “I knew this already after all… However seeing this in apply, at this scale, is spectacular.”
4/5 Accountable AI is a cornerstone. Everyone seems to be working exhausting to outline new norms and everybody I’ve met feels a deep accountability to take action with an open coronary heart and a humble thoughts… Huge kudos to all of the groups engaged on this!
— Mustafa Suleyman (@mustafasuleyman) Might 6, 2024
When Nadella introduced Suleyman’s transfer to Microsoft in March, he stated the corporate was gearing as much as take a shot at constructing expertise “that was as soon as thought not possible and that lives as much as our mission to make sure the advantages of AI attain each particular person and group on the planet, safely and responsibly.”
Suleyman, who has beforehand described AI as a “basically labor-replacing” device, has indicated that he takes that accountability notably severely — and on Monday stated he is glad his new firm does, too.
5/5 At Microsoft AI we’re up for this. We’re constructing merchandise and shaping a way forward for large optimistic impression. It is nonetheless solely the start of a protracted journey forward, however we now have a imaginative and prescient for Copilot that’s bold and, we imagine, actually transformational. I could not be extra…
— Mustafa Suleyman (@mustafasuleyman) Might 6, 2024
“Accountable AI is a cornerstone,” Suleyman wrote on X, including: “It is nonetheless solely the start of a protracted journey forward, however we now have a imaginative and prescient for Copilot that’s bold and, we imagine, actually transformational. I could not be extra energized. Let’s make it occur!”
Enterprise Insider reported in March that customers aren’t fairly offered on Microsoft’s Copilot but, with some complaining that it would not carry out in addition to OpenAI’s ChatGPT — however, based mostly on his most up-to-date feedback, it seems Suleyman is up for the problem of constructing Microsoft’s tech an actual competitor within the AI area.
Suleyman didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider.
